novelraw #254 - Section 254
#254 - Section 254
Yes, after her own daughter was schemed against, the Elf Queen heard that Roger dared to return and couldn't help but want to settle accounts.
This time, no matter how unwilling she was, she finally followed Windsor's proposal and prepared to expel the divine authority from the Elven Empire.
At the Council of Governors, the Elf Queen changed her mind and supported Windsor's proposal, which also meant that the current Queen was about to gradually delegate power, preparing for Windsor to inherit the throne.
Although Windsor had a 95% chance or higher of becoming the next Queen, the current Queen had no intention of delegating power before. It would take hundreds of years for her to ascend the throne.
This advancement is a very important signal for the Elven Empire, and many fence-sitters have begun to take sides.
Another very important point is that the expulsion of the Church of Nature will bring about a huge power vacuum. The distribution of this power will be in Windsor's hands, which will bring her considerable political capital and allow her to establish her own direct line.
In the end, the Elf Queen's concession this time was not voluntary, but was schemed against by Windsor's sudden attack.
Gladys was not only considering the interests of the elves, but also the image of her daughter.
Putting the conflict between mother and daughter on the surface is very detrimental to Windsor's succession.
At the last moment, she was awakened to her identity as a mother and did not allow herself, who would retire sooner or later, to become a stumbling block preventing Windsor from taking control of the Empire.
And she was willing to attract hatred herself, complete the major task of expelling the Church of Nature, and hand over a purer Elven Empire to her daughter.
After the Council of Governors, the mother and daughter had a secret conversation. The Elf Queen, who was forced to make a choice, was very angry, but facing her daughter, whose attitude had softened, she couldn't vent her anger and only felt aggrieved.
So when she heard that Roger dared to return to Yggdrasil, she came to his door as soon as possible, ready to ask this Duke of the Empire what he meant and why he was causing trouble for her family!
"Your Majesty, your late-night visit is really unexpected." Roger led the Elf Queen into the reception room, with a very natural attitude and no hint of surprise on his face.
"Lord Charles is incredibly resourceful. All the elves are being played by you. How can there be anything that can surprise you?"
"Of course there is. For example, the deep affection between Your Majesty and the Princess moves me very much..."
"You!"
The Elf Queen slammed the table and stood up, glaring at Roger.
This guy is trash-talking to her face, isn't he?
Relying on the support of the Emerald Vine Empire, he completely disregards her, the Queen?
Roger said lightly: "Am I wrong? Your Majesty took the initiative to concede at the Council of Governors for the sake of your daughter's physical and mental health, and shouldered the danger of offending the Church of Nature. This is indeed touching maternal love. And Princess Windsor, following Your Majesty's teachings, is constantly working hard and growing strong. Now she has also undergone a real transformation. This is a very beautiful ending, isn't it?"
Elf Queen: "Don't beautify your behavior of destroying our mother-daughter relationship!"
"No, I think my timely intervention is a better ending for your mother and daughter."
Roger took out an information crystal, which stored some of his conversations with Windsor.
The Elf Queen only browsed the beginning, and her face turned pale: "That girl, is that really what she thinks?"
Chapter 230: First, Deal with Her Mother
In the game "Eternal Night Unending", Princess Windsor's side story is actually a tragedy.
Five years later, when the main story of the game begins, Princess Windsor already harbors unbearable resistance to her mother's control.
But in that world, there is no Roger, no one can help Windsor out of her mother's control.
The game players' social status is also not high enough, and they cannot participate in the Elven Dynasty's change, but only watch a beautiful princess who is often sad about her background.
In the game, the Emerald Vine Empire will launch a frontal war against the elves, and because the God of Nature ends the Eternal Night Empress's invincible journey, the strategy of relying on war to extend the Empire's lifespan will be thwarted, and the Empire will begin its process of collapse.
Due to well-known reasons, the Seven Gods of this world will not work for free. Every time they take action, they are profitable.
When the God of Nature descends an avatar in the Eternal Night World, it will inevitably require sacrifices. In the game plot, this sacrifice is Princess Windsor herself.
If a spirit wants to play God's descent, the commotion will not be small. The Empire will definitely try to prevent this God's descent. That is the first time players face the Empire's military power, fighting wits and courage with Margaret to ensure the God's descent proceeds.
However, because the players' levels are not high at that time, the originally scheduled sacrifice is destroyed by the Empire. The cutscene CG is Windsor sacrificing herself to attract the avatar of the God of Nature.
This is because of her sense of responsibility to her country, and also because her every action and every expression are under her mother's control. She has long lost the joy of life, and there is no one to lead her out, so she has a tendency to self-destruct.
The teachings of the God of Nature do not allow suicide, but if Princess Windsor chooses self-sacrifice to protect the people when the Emerald Vine Empire invades, this is not considered suicide, but a good story of serving the country and the people.
A beautiful female character attracts a righteous God's descent to resist the brutal Empire. This is also an important scene in the early plot of the game to shape the Empire's image.
However, the plot party that digs deep into every detail will slowly discover that the princess's sacrifice is not only about faith and racial righteousness, but also a serious psychological problem. Her mother-daughter relationship with the Elf Queen is not as harmonious as the surface propaganda.
It is precisely because of understanding this secret that Roger will use Princess Windsor as a breakthrough to intervene in the internal affairs of the Elven Empire.
At this time, although Windsor is also uncomfortable in her heart because of her mother's control, she has only just awakened her self-awareness and has not reached the point of self-destruction.
However, when she confided in Roger, and felt happy and relaxed, the emotions she revealed in her words were quite negative.
There is a saying that you don't necessarily tell the truth after drinking, because it may be a trick to pretend to be drunk, but the words you say unintentionally reflect the most real state of mind.
So the Elf Queen immediately felt bad all over.
The story of Windsor, even purely lustful players who know the truth will be depressed for a long time, let alone her biological mother.
It's just that before this, she had heard the Grand Prince persuade her that she was too strict in disciplining her daughter, but she had always believed that this was all-round protection. She never thought that this protection would have such a huge impact on Windsor.
"The closer you are, the more careful you must be when getting along, instead of arbitrarily venting emotions and using means to make up for regrets," Roger said to the dazed Elf Queen.
She frowned. Although there was this heartfelt confession from Windsor, Roger's previous layout could be said to be an emergency operation to save their mother-daughter relationship, pulling Windsor out of the shadows of adolescence. But after all, he was the culprit that led to the Elf Queen's current passive situation!
"I will take care of my daughter, I don't need you, a single dog, to point fingers!" The Elf Queen said domineeringly that she didn't need his help!
Roger's face stiffened. This Majesty is also a conversation terminator. Is she bringing up what shouldn't be brought up?
He was just depressed because he had failed to seduce another queen, and as a result, he was targeted and disliked because he didn't have any children yet.
Seeing Roger depressed there, the Elf Queen finally managed to vent a little bit of her anger, and quietly put away the information crystal.
Although she knew that Windsor would have negative problems if she was over-disciplined, she was not a parenting expert after all, and she couldn't grasp whether there would be hidden dangers in the future.
She planned to use this recording, in the name of "a friend has a daughter", to ask experts in this field to consult on Windsor's situation.
Elf Queen Gladys calmed down. Since there was no hope of settling accounts with Roger, she ended this foreshadowing and began to talk about serious matters:
"Commander, you never make useless layouts. You have come to Yggdrasil several times and put in so much effort to make layouts. What exactly are you planning? If there is anything you need, I will definitely cooperate with you with all my strength."
After this incident, the Elf Queen also resigned herself to fate, confirming that Roger's control over his "allies" was quite terrifying.
Compared to being schemed against by him, it is better to directly start cooperation. As for the ancient and elegant face problem of the long-lived species?
The Eternal Night is hanging over her head every day, coming and going as she pleases. Her place is simply more free than that XX. At this time, who dares to care about the so-called face?
You have to be alive to have face!
What's more, the Elf Queen is also a woman, and she can clearly feel that Windsor's attitude towards Roger is not simple.
Any woman who has been rescued from what she considers to be hell by a man will not have a plain friend's perspective, but...
Alas, so if she could separate Windsor and Roger's contact, the Elf Queen would be willing to sell the interests of the elves.
As long as she doesn't sell too hard, she chooses her daughter!
After the Council of Governors, the Elf Queen was a little frightened by Roger's methods, and she had the determination to feed a tiger with her body if necessary.
Here, it must be clarified that Roger is not as lewd as the Queen thinks. He has never lacked confidantes around him. The arrangement for Windsor is one for the Empire's strategy, and the other is a coincidence. There is absolutely no misunderstanding that he is interested in someone else's daughter.
Yes, it must be clarified here that it is not a misunderstanding.
Although it is not a misunderstanding, someone's ultimate goal also exists in the attempt to fill Windsor's favorability, but this matter is not urgent.
It is that Windsor is in her rebellious period, and she has offended her mother badly, which is not conducive to the long-term development of the relationship between the two, because the perfect princess is still a well-behaved child in her heart.
Otherwise, she would not be able to play such a role for hundreds of years.
Only when the sense of being a puppet is full to a certain extent will she give birth to a rebellious heart. When the Elf Queen adopts a gentle approach, the relationship between Windsor and her mother will slowly improve.
Yes, it is such a dynamically balanced and entangled relationship.
So in intimate relationships, if you just cheat and run away, you can stimulate the other's parents, but if you want to stay together for a long time, you still have to turn this power into promotion, otherwise it is very difficult to control this variable.
So in the Elf Queen's view, Roger is very sensible and agreed without thinking:
"Since Your Majesty has this intention, I don't need to think about breaking the situation with Princess Windsor. Let's set the strategy for dealing with the Dark Elf Revenge War together!"
"Those underground trash?" The Elf Queen's expression changed slightly.
She despises them on the surface, but she still values those natives in the underground, knowing how good they are at fighting.
What's more terrifying is that the surface world was previously in a mess. The Elven Empire's accumulation and strength were seriously depleted. Those races in the Underdark must complete a certain degree of unification before they can rush back to the surface...
"It is them, and with the support of the Dark Goddess, now the Dark Elf's most powerful Matron Yaventhali has become the God of Revenge."
"How does Emerald Vine view this war?"
"Underground races are insidious and cunning, and are the common enemy of all intelligent life on the surface!"
Roger answered righteously.
But the Elf Queen knew that this was just diplomatic rhetoric. The Emerald Vine Empire was just looking for an excuse to intervene in the war between the surface elves and the dark elves.
But to say something without being ashamed, it was precisely because of the Emerald Vine Empire's participation in the war that the Elf Queen felt the pressure on her head suddenly eased.
Roger intervened well!
Now that the sky has fallen, there is a tall one to support it. Otherwise, she is really worried that the Elven Empire will be crushed by the dark elves in its current state...
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Because the Elf Queen was eager to protect her daughter and only wanted Roger to leave quickly, the Emerald Vine Empire gained considerable dominance in the following war.
As long as she ensures that Roger does not want to sacrifice the surface elves as bait and eat both the surface elves and the dark elves, the Elf Queen basically has no intention of singing a different tune.
After all, from her perspective, the support given by the Emerald Vine Empire is very sincere. The weapons and equipment, supplies and rations, some primary technologies, and their combat experience accumulated in the underwater battlefield will definitely greatly improve the actual combat effectiveness of the Elven Empire.
...But in fact, this is only because after the Emerald Vine Empire showed its cards, the underwater battlefield was temporarily suspended, and the accumulated military fire that could not be sold needed a buyer to clear the inventory, and then the Elven Empire came to be the sucker.
The Elven Empire is indeed short of cash now, but the Empire can give loans!
Directly bind the future tax revenue of the elves, and then start helping the Elven Empire to develop and build, ensuring that the skillful elves' productivity will increase!
In terms of textile, forging, and magical talent, elves do have talents that surpass most human races.
This is a very excellent race. If it weren't for the too long growth and development cycle, and various pretentious problems that lead to a low birth rate, they would be qualified to compete for the world's hegemony.
In fact, in many worlds, elves were the absolute protagonists in the early and mid stages of magical civilization, and many highly aggressive elven civilizations were born.
But the surface elves in the Eternal Night World are already half-disabled. Their fighting will is not high, and they prefer to engage in things like production and art that have nothing to do with fighting.
In the eyes of the Eternal Night Empress, their long lives belong to living on a dog.
But I am not a dog, how do I know the joy of a dog?
In terms of average quality of life, the living standards of the proper pure-blooded elves are the best on the previous continent, and the level of care and education they receive is relatively high, and their resistance to the Elysium Illusion is relatively high.
But it is still a matter of reproduction. Pure-blooded elves actually only account for 20% of the current Elven Empire. The main population is supported by half-elves, vassal races, slaves, etc., and they are also the main force supporting the operation of society.
The real pure-blooded elves are either enjoying themselves or acting as management positions.
It's just that the elven bloodline is strong enough, and with tens of thousands of years of cultural propaganda backing their martial strength, various races sharpen their heads wanting to join the Elven Empire. Therefore, there's no issue of a small tribe dominating a large nation, and the Moonwalker family's rule has been quite stable.
When fighting orcs, pure-blooded elves shouldn't be sent to the battlefield too much, to avoid attrition.
But now that the dark elves are attacking, the Elven Empire faces a war of defense, and pure-blooded elves have the necessity to go to the battlefield.
The Empire has also unlocked a strategic technology for the elves: Virtual Archmage.
This was a plan originally proposed by Roger. The initial idea was that playing games could train soldiers, and arming civilians without cultivation talent could turn them into magical turrets, pew pew pew.
However, the development process was full of setbacks. At the same time, practice proved that the magic talent supplemented by the system was far inferior to the original sensitivity, and the control effect and sensitivity of magic would be greatly reduced.
There was also the energy problem of the Virtual Archmage. If magic crystal energy was used directly, magic crystal machinery seemed to be more useful and efficient than the Virtual Archmage project...
Therefore, the development priority of this project was continuously lowered. It was only maintained because of the Commander's face.
Until Xia Ti completed the divine energy conversion, found a way to utilize divine power and a charging path, and the Empire unlocked a technology equivalent to controllable nuclear fusion, entering an era of almost infinite energy, the Virtual Archmage project suddenly became popular again.
Moreover, Xia Ti verified that divine energy conversion wasn't just electricity; directly converting it into magic power was more efficient.
Even consciously using that divine energy directly, wouldn't the loss be even lower?
Gods are the most pinnacle existences in this world. To crack their power but only use it to boil water and generate electricity is just a low-level stage of resource utilization.
However, even this low-level stage can exert effects surpassing past technologies, which can actually illustrate the slipperiness of divine power from the side.
Directly using a divine spirit avatar for energy supply, the redeveloped Virtual Archmage project seems to perfectly confirm the 'divine' in its name.
However, the entire technical plan is different from Roger's original vision.
His initial idea was to create a professional system with only a limited number of skills, like in a MOBA game, and then let civilians and soldiers without cultivation talent master it and use it directly, so they could play the role of professionals on the battlefield.